Keith Urban Lives in the Moment

Country Music superstar Keith Urban is busy defying gravity these days, soaring along with a wildly successful Escape Together World Tour, the release of a new iTunes Originals album and even a line of Keith Urban beach towels.

Despite the marketing whirlwind and the flying metaphors, Urban insists this time in his life is the time he feels the most grounded.

"I was one of those guys who was always thinking about the past, or about the future, but never the here," Urban told the Dallas Morning News this past month. "I even made an album called Be Here, and I still didn't get it – I was never really here. But now I love being in the present, because I have so much to be grateful for in the present."

Much of Urban's in-the-now feeling comes from his family: his wife of three years, actress Nicole Kidman, and their daughter, Sunday Rose, who celebrated her first birthday on July 7.

The new iTunes Originals album features Urban's new single, "Only You Can Love Me This Way," "Days Go By," "Kiss A Girl" and exclusive interview footage with the star.

Urban will be performing in Glendale, Ariz., this weekend and stops by Boston at the end of the month.